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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : On Monday, CBP released a revamped version of the CBP One app.
55% : LUKE Holding Inc. issued WARN Act notices -- a prelude to layoffs -- for 107 employees in the state, including 34 employees working at the "soft-sided" facility on East Los Reales Road, as well as 19 employees working at the Border Patrol station in Nogales and another 54 employees at the Border Patrol station in Yuma.
53% : From January 2023 through December 2024, more than 936,500 people -- including Venezuelan, Cuban, and Mexican migrants -- scheduled appointments through CBP One rather than risking their lives in the hands of smugglers, CBP said.
51% : CBP built similar "soft-sided" facilities in Yuma in 2019 to manage the influx of migrant families during the Trump administration, and through 2023, the agency set up another one near El Paso.
47% : The agency no longer needs the facility because CBP is quickly removing people, and the U.S. Border Patrol has the capability to manage the detention of apprehended people in the agency's permanent facilities.
46% : Layoffs also include employees at Border Patrol stations in Nogales, Yuma; CBP One app revamped 107 employees at three Tucson Sector Border Patrol facilities tasked with holding migrants were informed they are losing their jobs with a federal contractor, a sign of decreasing need and a crunch in federal spending.
46% : Biden administration officials said the application was part of an effort to "incentivize noncitizens to use lawful, safe, humane, and orderly pathways and processes." "DHS encourages migrants to use lawful processes, rather than taking the dangerous journey to cross unlawfully between the ports of entry, which also carries significant consequences under the United States immigration laws," Biden administration officials said in December, noting the appointments helped CBP process migrants in a "more efficient and orderly manner while cutting out unscrupulous smugglers who endanger and profit from vulnerable migrants.
42% : "Due to the unprecedented drop in apprehensions of illegal aliens as a result of the President's recent executive actions, CBP is reducing the number of temporary, soft-sided processing facilities where illegal aliens have been held in specific locations along the southwest border," said a CBP spokesman.
35% : Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acclaimed the Biden administration "exploited" CBP to allow people to "illegally enter" the U.S., ignoring how current immigration law allows for the executive branch to "parole" people into the U.S. "The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream," Noem claimed.

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